Love the idea of placing a warm blanket & pillow outside. Although chances are slim that someone might sit outside during the dead of winter, the two send an inviting, unspoken message to my guests. With solar lights or the battery tea lights I purchased from JoAnn's today, I can add lighting to some old mason jars with the vintage zinc lids. @White Stuff UK #myhappychristmas #christmas

I would love an old screen door since there is no better feeling to hear what it sounds like! You can have one at your house in the city just remind you of your country childhood!

Brings back delighful family memories of my grandparents and their farmhouse full of our big extended family, inside and out. After a hearty dinner, the dishes were dried by the women with hand embroidered t-towels made from flour sacks. Grandma and grandpa and the adults gathered on the front porch. Grandparents sitting in cane-bottomed rocking chairs that creaked to a slow rhythm and a lucky few swinging and squeeking the porch swing chains. All catching up on the local latest news, gossip, funny stories and hardy laughter. We rocked and sipped ice cold tea from glass canning jars on hot summer days while fanning ourselves with paper fans from the church or the general store, hoping for a cool breeze to bring relief and the sweet smell of honeysuckle with it And the occasional sound of wooden screendoors slamming shut - one way or the other. The ladies politely let the doors shut quietly behind them so as to avoid startling anyone, while the pipe smoking men and bousterious boys let the doors slam shut with a loud bang every time without giving it a second thought, followed by a good scolding by the startled ladies. I still love the sound wooden screendoors, men's cowboy boots walking across a wooden porch, creaking rocking chairs, and porch swings jangling chains, and the taste of ice tea from a glass fruit jar. With it comes warm memories of our big, blessed, loving, happy family and a wonderful country lifestyle that I will always cherish.

.aww this quote reminds me of my grandmas house.. brings back so many memories..